Mark Hollis - Track & Field Coach - University of Tennessee Athletics

Mark Hollis

Title:
Assistant Coach (Pole Vault)

Pole vault coach Mark Hollis enters his first season with the Orange & White in 2022-23.

A native of Freeport, Illinois, Hollis has been a resident of Knoxville since 2013. He completed his collegiate career at Olivet Nazarene University in 2007. While there, Hollis was a six-time All-American and a two-time outdoor NAIA National Champion in pole vault.

Following his time at Olivet, Hollis competed professionally from 2007-17 in which time he was a three-time U.S. Champion and competed for Team USA in the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, in 2011. He is also a two-time Millrose Games winner – in 2010 and 2014 – a Pan American Games Bronze Medalist in 2015 as well as a Bronze medal winner at the Continental Cup in 2014. Hollis qualified and competed at three Olympic Trials starting in 2008, finishing fifth in 2012 and fourth in 2016 to be the Olympic Alternate for the Rio games.

In 2013, Hollis moved to Knoxville to train under the tutelage of former Vol and Olympic Gold Medalist Tim Mack. After his retirement from competition, Hollis started coaching privately in Knoxville under his club Full Vertical Vault Club. He has coached numerous Tennessee state champions as well as a group of elite post collegiate athletes.